Hirosuke Yabe (b. 1973 lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan) creates wooden sculptures using a nata, a Japanese hatchet, to conjure up a menagerie of human expressions. Ranging in size from just a few inches to several feet high, Yabe uses logwood as well as recycled discarded wood from demolished traditional Japanese …

Hirosuke Yabe (b. 1973 lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan) creates wooden sculptures using a nata, a Japanese hatchet, to conjure up a menagerie of human expressions. Ranging in size from just a few inches to several feet high, Yabe uses logwood as well as recycled discarded wood from demolished traditional Japanese …